Barron's how to Prepare for the AP English Advanced Placement Examinations: Literature and Composition, Language and CompositionSix full-length practice exams prepare test takers for both the language and literature exams in English, and are presented with all questions answered and explained. Two practice exams are in language and four are in literature. Extensive subject review includes capsule summaries of more than 50 works of American and English literature. There is also a section covering literary and rhetorical words and phrases. A separate essay-writing section contains sample responses to AP questions and offers specific advice on writing a successful AP essay. |
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... theme in the first line , develops it in the first and sec- ond stanzas , and resolves it in the third . ( B ) She does not state her theme but expects the reader to infer it . ( C ) She obscures her theme with dramatic metaphors that ...
... theme in the first line , develops it in the first and sec- ond stanzas , and resolves it in the third . ( B ) She does not state her theme but expects the reader to infer it . ( C ) She obscures her theme with dramatic metaphors that ...
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... theme in Hamlet that begins when Hamlet cannot tell whether the ghost is really his father or an agent of the devil and does not end until the scene when Hamlet and Laertes have a duel which on the surface seems fair and honest , but in ...
... theme in Hamlet that begins when Hamlet cannot tell whether the ghost is really his father or an agent of the devil and does not end until the scene when Hamlet and Laertes have a duel which on the surface seems fair and honest , but in ...
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... Theme Dramatic Situation Analysis of Two Sonnets Aspects of Poetry Tone is the author's attitude toward his / her ... theme for the poem itself . The theme of a poem is not to be abstracted like the moral of a fairy tale , for it is ...
... Theme Dramatic Situation Analysis of Two Sonnets Aspects of Poetry Tone is the author's attitude toward his / her ... theme for the poem itself . The theme of a poem is not to be abstracted like the moral of a fairy tale , for it is ...
Common terms and phrases
A B C D E action analyze answer Antigone AP exam beauty behavior Beloved blackbird Buendía Catherine characters child choice chorus create Creon dark dead death describes Dionysus dream elements emotional Essay Questions Estragon Euripides evil example experience expression father feel fiction Gulliver Gulliver's Travels Hamlet Heathcliff Houyhnhnms human ideas images irony Jocasta José Arcadio king language literature lives Lord Jim Macondo meaning metaphor metonymy mind Mirabell multiple-choice questions murder narrator nature novel Oedipus Oedipus the King onomatopoeia paragraph passage Pemberton person phrase play player poem poet poetry Polybus prose reader reality relationship reveal rhetorical rhyme Rosencrantz and Guildenstern satirical says scene sense sentence Sethe sonnet sounds speaker stanza statement story structure style suggests symbol Teiresias tells theme things tion tone tragic truth Vladimir Waiting for Godot words write an essay Wuthering Heights Yossarian